Hélène de Saint-Père
2021
Sept en attente
Françoise Etchegaray
Clémentine Amouroux, Cécile Reigher
An all night party in a building on the outskirts of Paris provides the setting of this provocative French meditation on life and waiting. As the title states, the film centers on seven main characters at the party. Each of them is privately waiting for something and all of them engage in conversations about the fundamental concerns of life, including love, sex, truth and responsibility. Among the seven are a pregnant woman waiting for her baby, a playboy, a gay man, and a young woman with poor taste in men. To make the film, director Francoise Etchegaray gave the actors a sense of who they were supposed to be and what they should do, placed them in a room, and let them improvise their dialog.
Sept en attente
You Will Be My Son
Gilles Legrand
Lorànt Deutsch, Niels Arestrup
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe, the son of his manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son...
You Will Be My Son
Jacqueline Sauvage - C'était lui ou moi
Yves Rénier
Muriel Robin, Olivier Marchal
On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
L'Amoureuse
Jacques Doillon
Marianne Denicourt, Hélène de Saint-Père
A love story. But while the first is in love with the girl, the second boy has just met her and isn't ready to give her up. And the girl in love no longer knows which one to choose. The second is willing to dissappear from her life, to sacrifice himself ; if she accepts to marry him abroad in utmost secrecy...
L'Amoureuse
Friday Night
Claire Denis
Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon
Paris, 1995. Laure is about to meet friends for dinner. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When she offers a handsome stranger a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.
Friday Night
La règle du je
Françoise Etchegaray
Stéphane Guillon, Marie Matheron
While preparing her next exhibition, Olivia, a young painter, tries to save her life with Simon from sinking, already cruelly tested by a first year of separation. During a trip to Majorca, she meets Alexander, an Irishman with whom she falls in love. When she returns to Paris, she chooses to leave Simon, without mentioning her romance with Alexander. But the two men meet during an exhibition.
La règle du je
Les Apparences
Marc Fitoussi
Lucas Englander, Karin Viard
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discovers that Henri is cheating on her. On an impulse, she finds revenge with Jonas, a perfect young Austrian guy. But he’s not who she thought he was. This will lead them to an irreversible spiral.
Appearances
Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer
Carole Giacobbi
Michèle Moretti, Luca Vellani
In this short and uneven film about a single mother and her brood, the difficulties and obstacles involved in loving someone are presented with sympathy and fine sentiment, yet the film is slow in parts and although short, could have been advantageously edited to a still briefer length.
Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Serge Meynard
Francis Renaud, Philippe Nahon
Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, François will as well go to the ill-known taverns of the Latin Quarter that the Court of the Duke of Orleans, passing by the benches of the university. This marvelous poet at the same time as a scoundrel of morality will have a life where fights, robberies, imprisonments and final banishment will be linked. Leaving Paris, Villon will disappear.
Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
